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  • When the Son of Man Comes, Will He Find Faith on the Earth? - Episode #36

    When the Son of Man Comes, Will He Find Faith on the Earth? - Episode #36
    Aug 15 2024

    This passage shows us some things about prayer that Jesus clearly wanted His disciples to understand.

    As we read it, let's examine our own hearts and ask, "How well do I understand what Jesus says here?"

    Parables on Prayer

    18 Now Jesus was telling the disciples a parable to make the point that at all times they ought to pray and not give up and lose heart, 2 saying, “In a certain city there was a judge who did not fear God and had no respect for man. 3 There was a [desperate] widow in that city and she kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice and legal protection from my adversary.’ 4 For a time he would not; but later he said to himself, ‘Even though I do not fear God nor respect man, 5 yet because this widow continues to bother me, I will give her justice and legal protection; otherwise [a]by continually coming she [will be an intolerable annoyance and she] will wear me out.’” 6 Then the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says! 7 And will not [our just] God defend and avenge His elect [His chosen ones] who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay [in providing justice] on their behalf? 8 I tell you that He will defend and avenge them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find [this kind of persistent] faith on the earth?”
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  • Are You a Mom Who Prays for Her Children? Then This Episode is For You! Episode #35

    Are You a Mom Who Prays for Her Children? Then This Episode is For You! Episode #35
    Jun 21 2024
    Well hello to you today, welcome to this episode of The Prayer Podcast. I’m thankful you’re joining me for this episode where we’re talking about moms, specifically encouraging moms to keep praying for their children. Have A Prayer Request? Submit It Here! A 60-Day Prayer Journal for Parents Praying Psalm 91 Audio Course There is a unique long-haul kind of praying that only mothers understand. We begin praying for them before they are born, as they develop and grow and are knit together by God in the womb. As newborns, oh my how a mother prays over that little baby! The first year, there is a lot to pray about. Developmentally alone, those prayers could fill an entire prayer journal for many moms. Toddlerhood, well, praying all the time, those shooting arrow kind of prayers all day long for protection, for patience, for the ability to be fully in the moment, for sleep, for safety, for time to both slow down and speed up, depending on the day. And that is just the start of a praying mom’s lifetime of prayer. Today I want to come alongside you as a fellow mom who prays daily for her children, and now my grandchildren as well. You are not alone in all the ups and downs that come with a life dedicated to covering your children in prayer, of the continual lifting up their needs and their broken areas before the Lord. It is possibly the most natural thing for a Christian mom to do, this praying, but it is also a choice we must make daily, especially when the praying is so long in obtaining an answer, when their choices break our hearts, when we know we are nearing the end of our rope, but all we can do is hang on and keep crying out to God for our children. If you’ve been dealing with long haul praying and the burden of being a praying mom has begun to feel heavy, weighing on your heart, always in the back of your mind, dreading the next phone call or text message, but still continuing in prayer, even waking up during the night to pray for your child…can I just say that while I can’t give you an in person hug and sit with you and let your share your heart and unload your burdens, I can do this: tell you that you are not alone, you are seen, your struggles and the burden you bear really is a noble cause, one of the highest possible causes in the Kindgom of God, and your labor in the Lord will not end up being in vain. Make no mistake, this kind of praying, going to the Lord on your child’s behalf when your own heart is broken and feels like it will never be mended, that is a labor not only of love, but for the disciple of Jesus, it is a labor in the Lord and He has promised that it will not be for nothing. While some may say that God is simply building your child’s testimony, today I don’t want to say that to you, because many of us cannot be comforted by that today. We know the place our child is living, and we can’t be soothed with platitudes or even with things that may well prove true in the end…because we carry the mom-burden in our hearts and minds at this moment, and we need to be seen, supported, and prayed for, even as we pray for our children. In 1 Samuel, we find Hannah at the temple praying for a child, as her womb had been barren and her heart was in anguish, and Eli the High Priest misunderstood her, assuming she was drunk. She had her tear-laden prayer answered, and my prayer for you today is that you, too, will very soon see the answer to the prayers you have prayed as a mother, the crying and the tears have all been captured in the Lord’s bottle, and may you see those answered prayers come to fruition soon, very soon. A mother’s heart holds things unique to her, and Mary the mother of Jesus treasured up things in her heart that were revealed to her about her son. Yes, Jesus lived as God in the flesh, and was the Savior for His earthly mother as well as for all mankind, for all who will receive Him. And yet, somehow, God allowed her to store up things in her heart that must have broken her heart in ways only moms can relate to. Those things you have stored up, treasured in your heart, the wonderful and joyous things and the things that are so incredibly painful that they rip a hole in your own soul, God knows all about those things and He knows all about your soul-ripping pain. I cannot begin to lessen that pain, but I can speak over you the truth that God has not failed to see all your hurt, all your tears, all your heartbreak and anguish, and He cares so very much for the state of your child and for the state of your heart. In all these things, we are more than conquerors, the New Testament tells us, and in those moments when we, as praying mothers, feel like anything but conquerors, God will do the heavy lifting. It may not feel like you are being protected, like your prayers are being heard, like this storm will ever end and the daylight break through and the sun shine on your child again…it may not feel like it, not one bit, but even so, ...
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  • Where Two or Three Are Gathered... Matthew 18L15-20 Episode #34

    Where Two or Three Are Gathered... Matthew 18L15-20 Episode #34
    May 30 2024
    Hey there, hello to you today. Welcome to episode number 34 of The Prayer Podcast, and thanks for listening. Today we’re going to read some of Jesus’ words about prayer from the book of Matthew, chapter 18. I’m going to read from the Amplified Bible today, and I will start in verse 15 and read through verse 20. Have a prayer request? Click here! And this section of chapter 18 is titled “Discipline and Prayer” - so what Jesus says here isn’t solely and singularly about prayer. There’s something more to this passage, and that something has to do with discipline. Don’t think of discipline as a bad word. The word disciple is very similar to the word discipline, after all. Disciples of Jesus are called to be a disciplined people, you could say. Matthew 18:15-20 AMP “If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private. If he listens and pays attention to you, you have won back your brother. But if he does not listen, take along with you one or two others, so that EVERY WORD MAY BE CONFIRMED BY THE TESTIMONY OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES. If he pays no attention to them (refusing to listen and obey), tell it to the church, and if he refuses to listen even to the church, le them be to you as a Gentile (unbeliever) and a tax collector. I assure you and most solemnly say to you, whatever you bind (forbid, declare to be improper and unlawful) on earth shall have (already) been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose (permit, declare lawful) on earth shall have (already) been loosed in heaven. Again, I say to you, that if two believers on earth agree (that is, are of one mind, in harmony) about anything that they ask (within the will of God), it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in My name (meeting together as my followers), I am there among them.” These five verses have a lot of counsel for us. First, the discipline portion was what Jesus mentioned here. Someone sins, and not someone who does not know the Lord, this is not about hitting the lost upside the head with our Bibles, this is about sin in someone who is a follower of Jesus. Go to him, or to her, in private first and show them their fault. Now I will say this: if the sin is very public, like on a platform, think of a literal platform like at a conference or it could be a virtual platform, then I have seen times when sin like that was addressed in the same manner it was committed. So, this seems touchy, like hmmm, but Jesus said to do it privately first, and He sure did. And that is what we ought to do. But if a very public leader in the church is leading church folk in sin, there is a need to make sure that the church understands what was sinful…because Jesus also said whoever leads one of these little ones to sin is in a bad place, in a bad way. Little ones can for sure be about children, and the Lord does not take that lying down. But a little one could also be someone who is new to the faith, has come to Jesus like a little child, fully trusting and all-in with Jesus, and if someone publicly misleads that new believer, well, just letting that go and not doing some kind of follow up (and immediately is best in this case, when the room is still occupied)...if we doing ensure new believers understand what was sinful, we aren’t discipling them. So I wanted to mention that, because sometimes it gets lost in the modern church, the follow up to make sure things are being addressed. There is a way to acknowledge that something was not right, was sinful and harmful to the body of Christ and still have the private moment of showing that person their fault. And the next step is witnesses, some others come along and help try to show them their fault. Why? So, they can be restored. The body doesn’t need any sick parts, and Jesus is returning for a pure bride, so we as the church are not wrong in trying to eliminate sickness and keep ourselves pure. The American culture smacks at this, doesn’t like this. But I am a Christian who happens to live in America, not an American Christian. My identity is in Christ, my home is in heaven, I am a pilgrim here, something of a nomad, and I’ve been told in the New Testament not to love the world…and so, I need to grow up a bit, take it on the chin sometimes, and accept that other believers can, and should, show me my fault. Disciplined discipleship is not a bad thing, and those of us who are honest can admit that. Also, based on this text, can I strongly encourage you to really listen when someone is bold and brave enough to do what Jesus says here and show you your fault? I’m talking to myself, and actually I am praying for this: Lord, when I am wrong, and one of Your people comes to me to show me my fault, my wrongness, would You enable me to deal with my sin and not take offense? To simply be Your daughter, in humility, and yield to You in that area of my life? Amen. This text is one we reference often, say, in our prayer ...
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  • God Hears Our Prayers & Grants Us His Wisdom - Psalm 86 & Jeremiah 33:3

    God Hears Our Prayers & Grants Us His Wisdom - Psalm 86 & Jeremiah 33:3
    May 17 2024
    Hey there! Welcome to episode 33 of The Prayer Podcast. I’m grateful you’re listening today, and I’d love to know where you’re listening from. I’m in sunny Wichita, Kansas today, enjoying the spring weather and readying myself for what will likely be yet another toasty summer in south central Kansas. Have a prayer need? Click here! Today I’d like to share a few verses with you that are super encouraging for us regarding prayer. The first verse is from the book of Jeremiah, and we will look at chapter 33, verse 3. This is a somewhat well known verse, so it may be pretty familiar to you. It’s a very encouraging verse. Jer. 33, verse 3 in the NLT says this: Ask Me and I will tell you remarkable secrets you do not know about things to come. Yeah, that’s an actual verse in the Bible and God is the One speaking in this verse. Call to Me, He says, ask Me, and then He goes on to promise that He will tell you remarkable secrets, things you do not know about things to come. This is profound. We worship the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies, we stand amazed and in utter awe of Him…and that is exactly as it should be. So verses like this one can hit us smack dab between the eyes and seem impossible to be true. But it is true! God says so, right here in Jeremiah. Today, right now, are you willing to be bold and brave enough in your faith to believe that this is true for you? That is, you will do the asking, if you will call out to God in prayer, He will tell you remarkable secrets that you don’t know yet, about things which are to come? I think we all have areas in our life where we really need the Lord’s wisdom. Let’s ask for it, and let’s pray really boldly and ask Him to tell us secrets about what’s coming. I think that we can trust the God who puts a verse like this in His Word for us to read and for us to believe, we can trust Him fully with all the things we bring to Him in prayer. It’s easy to pray and not fully trust - and when we get super honest, we can admit that this is true. It’s harder to pray and trust Him completely with the things we’re concerned enough about to pray about. Let’s pray big today, and let’s trust big today. Psalm 86, and I’ll put the entire psalm in the show notes but I will only read some of the verses from this psalm out loud. Vs 1 - Bend down, O Lord, and hear my prayer’ answer me for I need Your help. So right off the bat we know the psalmist is praying over some things weighing heavily on him. Can you and I go to prayer when things in life get heavy? Vs 3 - Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I am calling on You constantly. Vs 6-7 - Listen closely to my prayer, O Lord; hear my urgent cry. I will call to You whenever I’m in trouble, and You will answer me. Vs 11 - Teach me Your ways, O Lord, that I may live according to Your truth! Grant me purity of heart, so that I may honor You. Vs 16-17a - Look down and have mercy on me. Give Your strength to Your servant; save me, the son of Your servant. Send me a sign of Your favor. As I’ve worked on this episode, I’ve been praying this psalm over several people who are facing hard things right now. And I’ve also prayed it very broadly over every listener who is hearing this episode. You are not alone and you are not forgotten, and the God to whom David was praying when he penned these words is the same God I have been praying to about you. He still moves mountains, He still parts seas, He still hears and answers prayer. And His love for you is unending. As always, you can email me at JanLBurt@outlook.com with your prayer requests and I commit to praying. I also have a link in the show notes where you can send your prayer requests. I’m praying and believing, and I’m seeking the God of the Bible to move on your behalf! Thanks so much for listening today, from wherever you are in the world. Lord bless you! Psalm 86 A prayer of David. 1 Bend down, O Lord, and hear my prayer; answer me, for I need your help. 2 Protect me, for I am devoted to you. Save me, for I serve you and trust you. You are my God. 3 Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I am calling on you constantly. 4 Give me happiness, O Lord, for I give myself to you. 5 O Lord, you are so good, so ready to forgive, so full of unfailing love for all who ask for your help. 6 Listen closely to my prayer, O Lord; hear my urgent cry. 7 I will call to you whenever I’m in trouble, and you will answer me. 8 No pagan god is like you, O Lord. None can do what you do! 9 All the nations you made will come and bow before you, Lord; they will praise your holy name. 10 For you are great and perform wonderful deeds. You alone are God. 11 Teach me your ways, O Lord, that I may live according to your truth! Grant me purity of heart, so that I may honor you. 12 With all my heart I will praise you, O ...
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  • Prayer - What to Know About It... & Intercessors, I'm Here to Say, "THANK YOU!" - Episode #32

    Prayer - What to Know About It... & Intercessors, I'm Here to Say, "THANK YOU!" - Episode #32
    May 9 2024

    Prayer.

    How would you define it or describe it?

    And do you think it makes an impact on people & situations?

    After decades of praying for people & circumstances, here are a few things I've learned:

    1 - Prayer is unstoppable.

    Seriously...what can stop you from praying? It's a mighty weapon that God gives His people, and you can pray anywhere at any time. Realizing that no devil from hell and no human on earth can stop you from praying both emboldens and encourages us to keep on praying!

    2 - Prayer should never be generic.

    If something is worth worrying about, it's worth praying about. And more than praying, "Lord, please bless my loved ones today," why not pray specifically about the things going on in your loved one's lives? Get specific when you pray and start seeing specific answers to those prayers!

    3 - Prayer coupled with worship is powerful.

    Ever feel like your prayers don't make it past the ceiling? Have times when you don't feel like praying at all? Try adding some worship time into your prayer schedule. Worship for a song or two, and then go back to praying. You'll likely see a difference and your prayers will be oriented toward God's glory and will be powerful and effective!

    4 - Prayer should be rooted in faith.

    Praying without faith that our prayers will be heard or answered is like trying to breathe underwater...it doesn't work very well. If you need more faith, ask God for it. And if you need to remind yourself of how faithful He is, and how He always keeps His promises, do that, too!

    5 - Prayer does not need to be stagnant.

    Stagnant water isn't fit for drinking. Stagnant prayer isn't a good thing, either. Don't stay in a rut of praying through a checklist day after day...asked the Lord to make your prayer life come alive and expect Him to enliven you when you pray.

    6 - Praying for "small" things, not just the "big" things.

    If something concerns you, it concerns the God who calls you His own. Take all your concerns to Him in prayer, big or small.

    7 - Your praying can be a litmus test of how much you trust (or don't trust) the Lord.

    When we find ourselves unwilling or unable to ask God for certain things in our prayer time, we may need to ask whether or not we trust God enough to entrust this need to Him in prayer...

    8 - Intercession (praying for others) is God-honoring, important, holy Kingdom work.

    There are not enough words in the English language to sufficiently thank all those who stand in the gap and intercede on behalf of others! This work is life-changing, both in this life and the next. If you are an intercessor, can I just say THANK YOU!!!

    9 - Study what Jesus taught about prayer & then do what He taught & get busy praying!

    It's a worthy use of our time to study what Jesus taught about prayer in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and to take a look at Acts and Revelation to see if we find any information about how we ought to pray in those New Testament books. Pray how He taught His followers to pray & expect to see your prayers make an impact!

    Psalm 91 Pray It & Believe Audio Course access here

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  • The One About Church Hurt - Let's Talk About It! Episode #31

    The One About Church Hurt - Let's Talk About It! Episode #31
    Apr 16 2024
    #ChurchHurt #Church #Hurt Well, hey there, hello to you today. Thanks so much for joining me here on The Prayer Podcast. I’ve been praying and listening for the Lord’s leading, wanting to make sure I am hearing from Him and obeying Him regarding all aspects of my life, which includes podcasting. And it’s been a minute since I recorded an episode for this show. Praying Psalm 91 Course Choosing to really ask God for His exact will means I had to set aside time to really pray and really listen. And pray I did. Listen I did. There’s an area of my life that God has done a tremendous work in since fall of 2019, and it was a good work, a needed work, but a hard season to walk through. Recently I began working on something that I thought was just going to be for me, like a journaling exercise…many of us have Bible study journals and prayer journals, so I thought my journaling was going to be something like that. Uh, no. A solid nope. It has been something else. So far, it has turned into about 9k words, and I am not even close to being finished with this project (for lack of a better word). Two things that have jumped out at me lately are: Number 1, I am way better off, more healed and whole in this particular area of my life, than I thought I was. Number 2, I am seeing that many, many Christians have been dealing with this same issue and the Lord has very clearly led me to talk about it. Now before I get really bold, which I am incredibly prone to do, I want to share that I’ve vetted this topic with others, of course with my husband, and also in a group I’ve been part of that is led by Joanna Weaver (you know her as the author of the book Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World, which has sold over a million copies), and in that group we discussed this topic that I’ve been writing about and so I’m not just out here shooting from the hip. It’s taken a bit to get here, today, to record a podcast episode on the somewhat sensitive, often misunderstood, seen as too hot to handle topic of church hurt. And since I am often bold when I speak, I want to mention that I have prayed and asked the Lord to make me more meek and caring and less bold for this subject. Because it’s a tender and sensitive topic, and the experiences so many of us have been through warrant thoughtful words and compassion and empathy and the love and truth of Jesus over all. Lord, may my words be only what You want them to be, set a guard over my lips to stop unhelpful speech. Bless Your people, and may Your heart for them in this area of life overflow and bless them in ways that bring healing, and hope and Your highest favor. In Jesus name - Amen. Church hurt. First things first: it’s real, so if you don’t think it’s a real thing, I want to let you know it’s okay to stop listening to this podcast because my aim isn’t to argue, or to upset anybody, and my aim is not, as the Lord knows, to damage or malign the church, His church. I’m not here to badmouth or to bash. I’m here because God put me here, frankly, and because His church is made up of His people, and we don’t do right by the people He loves so dearly when we set aside the hurts that many of us have experienced within His church. I love the church, because how can I love Him and not love His church? Out of that love, I served. Long time service to the body of Christ. In many different ways. And in total transparency, some of that was to the detriment of my health, when I kept on keeping on in ministry longer than I was physically equipped to (a heart failure diagnosis, to be specific, and I served for three years following that diagnosis, even though it came with a high price). And to the detriment of my time raising my children when they were young, also in total transparency. To them, all five of them, I owe an apology and I am so very sorry that I did not see clearly that what was being asked and even required of me, in order for the five of you to have a place in children’s ministry I had to serve enough to let all five of you have a spot, as crazy as that sounds it was true way back in the 90s, and I am so sorry that I, with my health struggles and my little tots to care for, gave up too much and did not see, know or understand that what God had given me to use to love you well at times was poured out on all the ways that the church demanded it… I didn’t totally get this wrong, but too often I was more tired than you deserved and often we were go go going when you needed to be home home homing. For that, my sorry is never going to be enough, in my mind. It grieves me, and I believe it also grieves the Lord. To the mamas out there listening today who feel like they have to serve so much in order to even be able to attend Sunday morning services, who are serving and serving so their older kiddos can attend a mid-week group or to those who don’t go to Bible study or small group because they have been told ...
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  • Am I Praying the Right Way? (What Prayer Is & What It Isn't) Episode #30

    Am I Praying the Right Way? (What Prayer Is & What It Isn't) Episode #30
    Mar 14 2024
    Well hello to ya, welcome to this episode of The Prayer Podcast. I’m the shows host, Jan Burt, and I’m so glad you’re listening today. My prayer is that you are encouraged and that you find yourself praying big, bold, brave prayers regularly. And not just praying, but receiving answers to your prayers. Because while it’s true that we do not pray to a genie in a lamp, but to a God who sits enthroned above the heavens, it’s also true that our God loves to hear our prayers and He does indeed answer when we cry out to Him. So, let’s jump right in. This is episode number 30. When I really consider what prayer is all about, I think at its core, prayer has a lot to do with surrender. When we surrender everything to the Lord in prayer, real transformation starts to happen. Like, for us, as we pray, as we surrender, and for others that we are praying for. And in situations and circumstances, things start to transform. A prayer of surrender is really at what we did upon salvation, isn’t it? I give. Uncle. I surrender all. Making trade, Jesus’ life for mine, a total surrender to the Lord. So it does make sense that our prayer lives would involve lots of surrendering…of expectations, of hurts fears and disappointments and pain and sometimes even of hopes and dreams, surrendering to the Lord’s best for us. Mountains move when we surrender in prayer. I live in America, and I know that not all of my listeners live here, and honestly things are not great here as of late, so I have very little “the American dream” way of thinking in my life anymore, and that’s not a bad thing, but I say that because in the Christian world I’ve been part of in like real life, not in the online space, there has been in the past a sense of taking our American lifestyle, our culture and such, and applying it to the way that we pray. Yet when I read what Jesus said about prayer, especially when I read it with fresh eyes, if you will, and not just this is my daily reading plan, check it off and move on with the rest of my day, but really read it to understand what Jesus was saying about prayer, that American way of thinking has to be set aside. It can be shocking to realize how much we have changed prayer into something else…how, say, we can be so polite in our praying, thinking that honors God, this sense that it is disrespectful to Him to not be ultra polite as we pray. But is that what we find in the New Testament teachings of Jesus on prayer? Maybe not so much. Maybe not at all. As I read it, the New Testament encourages bold praying, not holding back because we don’t want to be impolite (which is what I meant when I mentioned applying our culture here in the States to our Christian life…we don’t mix impolite behavior with our church life…anybody else know what I’m talking about?) That’s more cultural, rooted in how we were raised than in the pages of our Bible. So, a few passages in the Bible that stretch us in our praying that I think are worth looking at include the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew five, six and seven, Psalm 91, Psalm 63, Luke chapters 11 and 18, and one verse from the Old Testament that has really impacted my faith as it relates to my prayer life is Zechariah 9:12, which says this: Come back to the place of safety, all your prisoners who still have hope! I promise this very day that I will repay you two blessings for each of your troubles. Now of course this was a specific promise to the Israelites during a time of exile, but per the New Testament we know that all God’s promises are yes and amen through Christ Jesus our Lord (that’s found in 2 Corinthians 1:20). And that verse has challenged me: do I really believe that God, who is the same yesterday and today and forever (Hebrews 13:8) is willing to give me two blessings for each one of my troubles? And do I pray about those troubles as if I believe that? And when I do pray like I believe that goes is who He says He is and does everything He says He’ll do, I end up praying big, bold prayers. Prayer is asking and prayer is receiving. Let’s remember then when we go to our prayer closets. It’s not just the asking. It’s about receiving. And not just receiving answers, but receiving everything the Lord wants us to have. Prayer is also enjoying being in God’s presence. It’s a time to worship and praise Him, to receive His comfort and His love, to be still and not be on the go go go. It’s a time for peace, a time we set apart to get apart with our God. And enjoy being at peace in His presence. Laying down our burdens, picking up the peace that Jesus promised. And you know, we’ve been looking at the book of James here on The Prayer Podcast, and this is a break from that, just to really focus on what prayer is. And prayer is vital. It’s a part of our life as followers of Jesus that anchors us to Him, and we don’t want to neglect it. We want to be doing ...
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  • Praying James 1:16-18 in a World on the Edge of Its End

    Praying James 1:16-18 in a World on the Edge of Its End
    Feb 21 2024
    Feel free to reach out with prayer requests & I will stand with you in prayer! JanLBurt@outlook.com TikTok - @janlburt Instagram - @janlburt James chapter one - 16 So don’t be misled, my dear brothers and sisters. 17 Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens.[d] He never changes or casts a shifting shadow.[e] 18 He chose to give birth to us by giving us his true word. And we, out of all creation, became his prized possession.[f] Continuing our look at the book of James, we’ll be praying today based on these three verses and also, this is sort of a dual episode if you will, because we are looking at some things happening in the world currently and are going to view them through the lens of Scripture. Don’t be misled. We are making a choice in this, it seems. Once we really take the Bible as straight up God’s word and apply it to things, like everything and all the things, well, then we’ve made the choice to not be misled, in large part. And the things going on in the world right now are not outside of the Lord’s sovereignty, so we can look at the reality of what is happening and stand it up against the true reality of the Bible and make a decision to not be misled in these times. Now not everyone thinks we are in the last days, but I sort of am gonna say what Francis Chan says on this exact issue, that his view may not be the right one but he really believes that it is. And that’s how I feel, and I wanted to say that at this point in the podcast because I’m gonna pray in a few moments for us all here in these last days, and so I thought I’d tell ya that’s what I believe before I start praying from that perspective and confuse people. Just gonna share a few things now, some real news that is super recent, like not old news, and then pray these verses from James. It’s February 20, 2024 as I write this, so you have a date to go along with this. Russia is funding, basically building, a base in Syria right along the border with Israel. The Bible makes it clear that Israel is going to flatten Damascus, it will be defunct, and it’s a literal prophecy, it will happen. Damascus is in Syria. Russia is considered to be Magog in the end times. So what is happening here is what the Bible has said will happen. The war in Gaza…there are passages in the Bible that make it clear what land will be part of Israel in the last days, and that taking back of land that’s going on is Biblical. And one thing I want to say - the owner or creator of something has ownership rights, and the One who created the world, planet earth, owns it. Nobody else does, not really. God created it, and He gave land to the nation, the people, of Israel and every bit He gave, that He says in the Bible they’ll have, well they’ll have it. Creating camps on another border of Gaza, Israel, let’s just call it what God calls it as it relates to end times, Egypt is building camps in the Sinai wilderness. Very interesting. Egypt has to step back onto the stage somehow in order for them to have the end times role the Bible talks about. It’s happening, in many different ways, but this going on right over the border is important and it’s a big change, you can see the satellite footage and note that there are doing some stuff out there. Keep an eye on Egypt for sure. The moon, per a news report that was shared on CNN and other outlets, and I’m not big on liberal or conservative news options because I’m just not, my trust level is pretty low, like most of us feel, right? But I share that to say it’s not just a wonky made up story, the moon is like rusting and turning red. Pretty sure this aligns with the word of God mentioning that in the last days the moon would be red. Hmm. Okay. Wow. The red heifers in Israel are getting closer to the age when they can be sacrificed, the plan is for this year’s Passover, in late April I believe, and there are two I think that are so far fitting the requirements for that sacrifice that would enable them to begin building their temple, the third temple, which has to be in place for the end times to play out according to what we find in the Bible. Another news story regarding the red heifers - members of Hamas are saying that a big propellent for the October 7th invasion and massacre and kidnappings that took place in Israel were spurred on because they wanted to take out those red heifers. Again, just wow. And also recently, Musk did that first impact of Neuralink into a human. Well, boy oh boy. I really could go on, but I just wanted to mention a handful of things and then pray based on James with this end times perspective, because if we don’t know what time it is, then we won’t be expecting what comes next on the Kingdom calendar, which is the soon return of Jesus. And who wouldn’t want us expectant and ready? The Enemy, the Accuser, Satan, the dirty dog liar. Who ...
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